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RidingSaddler N 242,650. Patehted' June 7,188].

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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE;

MILTON R. HUNTER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY A. PERKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

RIDING-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,650, dated June 7, 1881.

Application filed April 11, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILTON R. HUNTER, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Riding-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved metallic coupler or plate for uniting together the gullet and stay-strap of a riding-saddle, said plate having an eye for en gagement of the lac ing-strap or girth-plate.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a riding-saddle furnished with my improved coupler. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Fig. 3 a section on the line as a: of my coupler.

A may represent a saddle of any desired form.

Bis my improved coupler or eye-plat0,which plate consists of an annular middle portion or ring, b, from which radiate two tags or lugs, b 1), whose faces are somewhat depressed below the level of the ring, which is cut away at their point of junction, so as to present square shoulders 11'. Each tag is perforated, as at b to receive rivets C, which unite the coupler to the gullet D and the stay-strap E. The

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depression of the faces of thetags is such as to cause the faces of the said gullet and staystrap to he flush with the ring-face, so as to present smooth surfaces for contact with the legs of the rider.

To the ring B the lacing-plate or girth F is secured by looping and riveting, as shown in Fig. 1.

Instead of one hole and rivet, two or more i may be used in each tag where extraordinary strength is desired.

I claim as new and of my iuventionl. The eye-plate B, formed with middle ring 40 

